Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity
for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to
holiness and the source of the greatest human love»
for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment
necessary to serve God in the world.
You know what orders we gave you, by the help of Jesus Christ: it is the will of God that you should be holy, that you should abstain from sexual immorality and learn, each of you, to keep his body in
holiness and honor... not to overreach his fellow - Christian or to invade his rights... About family affection (within the Christian «family», the Church, he means) it is not
necessary for me to write to you.